VTTI is grateful to those who volunteer for our studies. We could not perform our life-saving research without volunteers/research participants!
The award is presented annually by BEAM in honor of the engineering science and mechanics professor who was among the 32 lives lost on April 16, 2007.
VTTI Director Tom Dingus spoke to The Washington Post about decades spent trying to understand what we do wrong, and right, on the road.
In 2018 and 2019, pediatric vehicular heatstroke was the leading cause of nontraffic child fatalities in the United States, according to the safety organization Kids and Cars. VTTI has released new research about technologies that are designed to prevent child hot-car deaths.